Has anyone designed a board running embedded linux?

[vorange]

Be it ARM, XScale, PowerPC, MIPS or any other kinda chip?

How difficult is it to design a small prototype board that can boot an
off the shelf embedded linux distro? Its been something I've been
meaning to try but don't have enough info on how to go about it.

Where does one begin? And how does a person build and mount these
chips onto the board when many of these chips are all BGA format?

Questions questions everywhere and not a drop to drink!

 

[Risto Sainio]

Be it ARM, XScale, PowerPC, MIPS or any other kinda chip?

How difficult is it to design a small prototype board that can boot an
off the shelf embedded linux distro? Its been something I've been
meaning to try but don't have enough info on how to go about it.

Where does one begin? And how does a person build and mount these
chips onto the board when many of these chips are all BGA format?

Questions questions everywhere and not a drop to drink!

Hi

As a electronic hobbyist I have designed two prototypes using Renesas
SH3-processor. As the 2.6-kernel already supported above mentioned
processor, it was quite straightforward. I designed the board with two
CF-connectors so that I could use CF-cards as filesystem and I still have
another slot for WLAN or GPRS. As memory I use normal SDRAM.


risto

 

[Jim Stewart]

Be it ARM, XScale, PowerPC, MIPS or any other kinda chip?

How difficult is it to design a small prototype board that can boot an
off the shelf embedded linux distro? Its been something I've been
meaning to try but don't have enough info on how to go about it.

Where does one begin? And how does a person build and mount these
chips onto the board when many of these chips are all BGA format?

Questions questions everywhere and not a drop to drink!

By "off the shelf" do you mean precompiled, working
binary for the on-board peripherals? You're welcome
to buy our Omniflash board....

http://www.jkmicro.com/products/omniflash.html

If you buy a board you get a schematic. The kernel
is precompiled and running on the shipped board. GPL
source and binary images and configured GCC development
enviroment are included with the development kit and
are available separately for a small distribution fee.

You can take the schematic and the software and build
whatever you want. And compare your prototype's
behavior to a working board. The design does not use
BGA chips. Just please don't ask for a bunch of free
tech support to get your board going. And no, you
can't have a free schematic. The cost of a dev kit
is our minimum "license fee" for the hardware design
and IMHO it's a pretty good bargain.

 

[Emanuele]

vorange ha scritto:

Be it ARM, XScale, PowerPC, MIPS or any other kinda chip?

How difficult is it to design a small prototype board that can boot an
off the shelf embedded linux distro? Its been something I've been
meaning to try but don't have enough info on how to go about it.

Where does one begin? And how does a person build and mount these
chips onto the board when many of these chips are all BGA format?

Questions questions everywhere and not a drop to drink!

Perhaps You need THIS

http://www.acmesystems.it/?id=4

Emanuele


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[JeffM]

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